The stone-cat soldiers put the lead balls into the leather pocket in the center of the stone-cat rope and began to rotate their right arm. Only by listening to the "whimpering" wind, the stone-cat rope was turning faster and faster.

Through the hazy dust fog, the Romans also saw the newly emerging enemies hundreds of meters away. Although they were a little nervous, they had no other way except to advance.

At this moment, hundreds of lead balls fell from the sky like hail, accurately sprinkled into the dense formation of the Romans, and screams suddenly sounded.

Except for the minor injuries of the heavy infantry in the center, the light infantry, with almost no protection, were smashed and bleeding. The Roman cavalry on both sides were also affected. The horses hit by the lead balls were shouted and jumped, throwing the unexpected cavalry under the horses, and almost disrupting the Roman array.

The Romans were attacked by stone-cattered soldiers for the first time, and were beaten a little confused without any defense.

However, the Dionian cavalry were prepared. Taking advantage of the moment when the Romans were in chaos, they immediately drove their horses to approach the enemy and threw out the few short javelins. Another scream came out, but the fallen soldiers were far from being slightly injured like scratching their scalp.

When the Roman light infantry picked up the bow and arrows and javelins, ready to attack the Dionian cavalry who were away, another piece of lead pill was smashed.

The continuous strikes caused the Roman light infantry to complain, and these soldiers from the Latin Alliance fell into chaos and their morale was low.

The Roman heavy infantry in the middle of the team remained calm and shouted in unison: "Run over! Kill them!!"

The first thing to take action was the Roman cavalry. They hurriedly gathered hundreds of cavalry and rushed forward desperately. The four hooves of the war horses were flying, rumbling against the solid ground, as if the earth was trembling.

Satirus still looked calm and raised his right hand again: "The Second Company is ready!"

The archers on both wings of the goose-shaped formation pulled the bow and led the arrow, while the Dionian cavalry were also following these Roman cavalry who charged desperately.

When Rome was less than 100 meters away from the Seventh Battalion, 350 Dionian archers fired their arrows together.

Almost flat-fired arrows shot from the wings to the center, forming crossing firepower. Although the Roman cavalry was driving fast, they were difficult to defend against. People shouted and horses neighed, and they rolled to the ground, hindering the progress of the cavalry behind them.

And at this moment, the second round of arrows shot again, giving the Roman cavalry greater damage.

A small number of Roman cavalry who rushed in front and avoided the attack of bows and arrows, as they were approaching the Dionia siege, but were attacked by the javelin of the third company that rushed out of the team, with few survivors left.

The Diorian cavalry also took the opportunity to assault the Roman cavalry from both sides, who were in chaos due to bows and arrows attacks halfway.

This skillful attack almost lost all the Roman cavalry that charged forward.

At this time, the Roman heavy infantry were still guarding the light infantry to move forward with difficulty. When they saw the tragic phenomena in front of them, they felt sad. But at this time, the sound of war horns they were unfamiliar with came from a distance.

The enemy reinforcements came again! The morale of the Romans fell to the bottom.

At this moment, "Woo! Woo! Woo!! Woo!..." A louder and louder military horn came from a distance.

"Our reinforcements are here! Our reinforcements are here!!" Hearing the familiar sound of the war horn, the Romans finally became excited.

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"Report the commander of the army, the Roman army in the camp has been dispatched! There are about eight or nine thousand people!" The scout came hurriedly and reported to Amintas.

"So fast?!" The Romans' quick reaction surprised Amintas. He originally wanted to let the Seventh Battalion, the Eighth Battalion and the Cavalry continue to siege without annihilation of this part of the enemy, so as to lure the Romans in the camp. At the same time, he could also allow the six heavy infantry brigades who had just arrived to rest for a while and recover some physical strength. Unexpectedly, the Roman army would come so quickly. The large army of eight or nine thousand people was obviously not something that the Dionian light infantry, light armored soldiers and cavalry could stop.

Amintas looked at the sweaty Dionian soldiers in front of him. Although they were tired, few of them sat down and lie down. Instead, they put down their weapons, gathered together in groups of three or three, and walked slowly to chat, because they knew that there would be a fight next. If they lay down, it would increase the soreness of their muscles and make their bodies lazy and not want to exercise.

Amintas immediately called six heavy infantry captains and said with a serious expression: "Our plan to lure the enemy has been successful, and the enemy's large troops have already left the camp. I hope you can overcome your fatigue, catch them, and defeat them!"

"Don't worry, the commander of the Legion! The Romans came out, don't want to run back!" The words of the first captain Kticus were recognized by other captains.

"Then prepare to set off!" Amintas immediately ordered.

Just as the captains gathered their soldiers, Amintas ordered the messenger: "Immediately inform Setia, the Volsie people in Polephonam, and the main forces of the Romans have already left the camp, and ask them to participate in the battle."

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After guessing the intention of the Dionians, Camillus did not hesitate and immediately summoned nine thousand infantrymen, leaving only more than 3,000 people to defend the camp.

Originally, Frius asked to lead his troops to let the elderly Camillus guard the camp.

But he was rejected by Camillus. He sent troops just to save the soldiers who were blocked and did not intend to fight the Deaonians to the death. However, if the young and energetic Frius led his troops, it would be very likely that such a result would be caused.

Camillus led more than 70 Roman heavy infantry squadrons to advance quickly towards the west as the scouts discovered, because he knew that Dionia's army would also come in this direction, and he had to pick up the trapped soldiers as soon as possible and then quickly return to the camp.

Camillus did not know much about the army of Dionia. In his impression, the surrounding forces and even the Greeks in Campania fought in the form of bloated square formations. Except for the Roman army he led the reform, they became more flexible in arrays because they used squadrons as the main force in combat. Therefore, he believed that even if the large army of Dionia arrived, they needed to rearrange the formations and he would have plenty of time to organize retreats.

When Camillus arrived at the battlefield, the seventh, eighth battalion and cavalry of Dionia had already retreated voluntarily. The scene in front of him surprised him: the ground was covered with dead bodies, dead horses, and wounded soldiers who were groaning and struggling. Nearly one-third of the nearly 3,000 people (cavalry and light infantry) who were ordered to come to rescue had actually lost nearly one-third. Moreover, the living soldiers were disheveled, depressed, some even had bruised noses and swollen heads and blood...

Through the brief description of the trapped team officer Comus, Camillus learned about the entire battle and was surprised by the lethality of the Dionian light infantry and cavalry, as well as the close cooperation between each other.

This is a well-trained army! Camillus set a label for the Dionians in his heart, so he urged the soldiers to bring the wounded and retreat immediately.

"What should we do if the citizens who died in battle?" The light infantry general from the allies asked to take the body back as well.

Camillus, who has always loved soldiers like a son, said with a hard heart: "Set it here for the time being and deal with it later. Now we must seize the time and return immediately!"

The generals of the allied states were dissatisfied with this decision and wanted to say it again.

At this time, the scout rushed over: "About six or seven thousand black soldiers attacked from the south by the Camillus military officials!"

Camillus's heart tightened and rode out of the team (according to the Roman military tradition, the Roman generals must only walk like the soldiers to show that there is no difference between the two, and they share the joys and sorrows. However, Camillus was too old and had limited physical strength, so the Roman Senate specially approved him to ride a horse), looked south, and saw dust and fog churning in the distance...

Judging from his experience, the enemy was already one mile away.

He immediately returned to the team and issued an order: "Crossing according to the array before the enemy is picked up and start retreating!"

What he said about the array before the enemy was a large formation with a small square array of 120 people arranged into a fish-scale shape. Because the squadrons had large intervals, they moved flexibly and retreated quickly. Once they could not retreat, they could convert into an offensive formation at any time. Due to some uneasiness in his heart, Camillus adopted this safe approach.

However, how could the Dionian light infantry surrounding the periphery allow the Romans to easily complete the retreat? The throwing soldiers swung the throwing rope again and threw lead balls at the Romans. The archers even boldly approached the outside of the Roman army and made a shooting posture...

Camillus had to transfer the Roman light infantry to this side as defense.

But the Dionian cavalry, running in groups, galloping on the periphery of the Roman army, from time to time, breaking inward less than 20 meters away from the Roman soldiers, and posing as a state of attack.

Although the messengers sent by Camillus repeatedly warned the Roman soldiers to ignore the harassment of the Dionians, the speed of the Roman soldiers' entire team was obviously disturbed.

At this time, the army of Dionia was moving rapidly and approaching less than 300 meters from the Roman army. The Roman soldiers could see clearly the golden flag raised by a pole in the dusty dust, and could hear the sound of a strong rhythm of snare drums, and rows of seemingly overwhelming black soldiers pressing them in relatively neat steps...

While the soldiers were attracted and shocked by the momentum of the Dionian army, Camillus was even more surprised. He found that the formation of the Dionian army was moving forward was very similar to the tactical formation after the reorganization of the Roman army. This made him suddenly realize that the Dionians may not have to spend a lot of time to arrange the formation and attack directly on themselves. If he retreated here forcibly, he would be chased by the opponent, resulting in chaos in the team and a disastrous defeat.
Chapter completed!